{"id":14182,"date":"2012-12-18T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2012-12-18T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:26:12","slug":"watch-the-luyas-at-le-guess-who-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/watch-the-luyas-at-le-guess-who-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Luyas at Le Guess Who? Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/large2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14183\" title=\"large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/large2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/large2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/large2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/large2-450x299.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>tr\u00e8s intelligent band<a href=\"http:\/\/theluyas.tumblr.com\/\"> <strong>The Luyas<\/strong><\/a> don&#8217;t provide easy access.\u00a0 Their music and lyrics are, at times, challenging, difficult to decode and dark.\u00a0 You know, like the first time you heard <strong>Joy Division<\/strong> or <strong>OK Computer<\/strong> or <strong>Kid A<\/strong>, and you were left scratching your head.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>But eventually, once you got it, they became your favorites.\u00a0 <strong>The Luyas&#8217;<\/strong> lead singer <strong>Jessie Stein<\/strong> writes dense, brilliant lyrics and sings them perfectly a-kilter, all the while backed by inventive, multi-instrumental bandmates.\u00a0 Eventually, your time spent pays off in spades. Their latest album<strong> Animator<\/strong> on <strong>Dead Oceans<\/strong> continues to win over critics and fans.\u00a0 Include us in that calculus.\u00a0 We hope they make their way to Cali next year.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, check the band <strong><\/strong>out below performing earlier this month at <strong>Le Guess Who? Festival<\/strong> in Holland, as captured by<strong> 3voor12<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you only have a short time, move up to the <strong>8:45 mark<\/strong> for song <em><strong>Fifty Fifty<\/strong><\/em> to get a great feel for <strong>The Luyas<\/strong>.\u00a0 All good.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3voor12 session The Luyas @ Le Guess Who? Festival 2012\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dY3_-RwBiiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8217;s\u00a0tr\u00e8s intelligent band The Luyas don&#8217;t provide easy access.\u00a0 Their music and lyrics are, at times, challenging, difficult to decode and dark.\u00a0 You know, like the first time you heard Joy Division or OK Computer or Kid A, and you were left scratching your head.\u00a0\u00a0But eventually, once you got it, they became your favorites.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}